@farmalljr wrote:
@theteamsetguy wrote:
@farmalljr ,
I think there is more to this story than the OP indicated. I’m guessing the OP sold item and didn’t understand his responsibility under eBay’s MBG. The OP probably didn’t think he had to refund buyer because it was damaged by shipper and that shouldn’t be his fault. eBay probably had to stop in and refunded buyer and the OP never got his coffee machine back.
I'm sure there is more to the story, but I think one thing may be the OP sold a river return. If it was "new", it probably was a return they thought they were going to make big money on. Like @fern*wood said, they just don't know what they are doing.
I have no idea, but I would think the OP may have watched a few youtube vids and thought they were just gonna sell here and make all their money problems go away. There are plenty of sellers on eBay that should no be sellers. This was probably one of them, and now they are not. There are long term accounts here though, that should not be either. Lots of sellers who act like children and think they can make any rules they feel like making. Lots of sellers who think they never do anything wrong and blames buyers and eBay for everything. Here was but one example of thousands, just like it. It appears the OP was just pouting and throwing a fit, despite there being rules to sell here. Those rules apply to everyone. In a way, I'm glad the OP is gone. Seller like that leave all the rest of the sellers and eBay with a black eye.
LOL I actually saw this after I'd already posted what comes below and decided to include your quote in an edit... How interesting that sometimes other members see what I see...
I've seen this scenario before and perhaps there has been an uptick of recent but basically it's a new seller who is in some type of not-too-rosy financial situation and suddenly sees ebay as the solution that is going to save their bacon. They come in all excited, start listing all sorts of things, some expensive some not so much but they're all in a hurry to get that money flowing and preferably fast. They barely read any of the instructions or how-to's, they certainly skimmed over the policies if they even did that much, basically they're going to learn as they go and wing it best they can.
It's a recipe for disaster, even sellers who do this methodically and correctly stumble several times along the way and can have a difficult time accepting and then working with some of ebay's stouter and less than sensible policies, not to even dare mention the "customer service" that is available today.
Because when I saw ebay as a form of income I was told to start as a buyer, and to stay a buyer for a good long time... In fact I was told to scrap the idea of selling completely and just use ebay to buy, until perhaps one day and maybe not. I wasn't happy with that but I basically did scrap the idea of selling and started to use ebay to buy... It may not make sense but a good half of the "how it works" is contained in the buying experience and with far less restrictive policies it makes the eventual learning curve associated with selling considerably less painful but by no means non-existent.
One day years into that I decided to try my hand at selling something, and while the sale transpired "succesfully" I was left feeling so bleh about the experience that I wouldn't sell again for several more years. I can't recall the exact time frame but I want to say it was about 10 years between the time I originally started to use ebay to buy things and the day I started to list a few more than a few things and by then... I had an understanding of what it means to learn to walk before you run, and I would list one item a day (read that last part again, one item a day).
It would be years of that, I would still get excited and think that ebay could be a full time income but I realized in time that it would also mean ebay had become a job... In ways it resolves itself anyway but today I am fine doing this part time kind of like as a hobby, and so I probably spend about an hour a day on ebay which even then it provides some nice pocket change.
It is sad to see what happened here, but I suspect we will see more stories like these in the future.
Word of suggestion to future sellers: READ and READ and READ before you even start, and maybe start on ebay as a buyer and stay buying for a good number of years.
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